1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: This is the warning. It has been one month since 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,840 Speaker 1: Donald Trump raised his hand and promised to preserve, protect, 3 00:00:08,920 --> 00:00:13,200 Speaker 1: and defend the Constitution of the United States. After receiving 4 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: the customary honors and salutes, he gave his inaugural address, 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,560 Speaker 1: where he asserted he was saved by God to usher 6 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: in the Golden Age. 7 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:25,800 Speaker 2: Just a few months ago in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: and assassin's bullet ripped through my ear. But I felt then, 9 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,320 Speaker 2: and believe even more so now, that my life was 10 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:38,720 Speaker 2: saved for a reason. I was saved by God to 11 00:00:39,159 --> 00:00:41,159 Speaker 2: make America great again. 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: There is no words that have ever been spoken and 13 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: a presidential inaugural more chilling than those he then appointed 14 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: as his White House faith advisor. This religious extremist pastor Paula. 15 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 3: The Lord, says, it is done for I hear victory, victory, victory, 16 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 3: victory in the quarters of Heaven, in the quarters of Heaven, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory, victory. 17 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,479 Speaker 4: For angels are being released right now. Angels are being 18 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 4: dispatched right now. Hamanda at Sanda ata Satata Rita eabanda 19 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 4: alta Rica d dasha da. For angels have even dispatch 20 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 4: from Africa, right now, Africa, right now, Africa, right now, 21 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:27,040 Speaker 4: from Africa, right now. 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 1: Over the last month, Trump has assembled the most unfit 23 00:01:30,920 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 1: cabinet in American history. It is an astonishment of vice 24 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: the characters, or a collection of insanity, imbecility, conspiracy theorists, 25 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: accused and alleged drunks, rapists, and the list goes on. 26 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: There is Ice Barbie posing across the American landscape doing 27 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: interviews in various costumes. There is the Secretary of Defense. 28 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:00,920 Speaker 1: The Secretary of Defense was a disaster on the world stage. 29 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: There is the vice president. The vice president meltdown in 30 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:09,240 Speaker 1: Transatlantic relations, the panic and chaos from Berlin. This is 31 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,240 Speaker 1: the Director of National Intelligence, Pulsey Gabbard. She was in 32 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 1: a cult and it is more unfit maybe any other 33 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,560 Speaker 1: member of this unfit cabinet. There's the conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, 34 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: now in charge of the public health departments, who's against vaccines. 35 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: Let's take a trip down memory lane from the confirmation hearing, 36 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: because there is an FBI director named Cash Betel with 37 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: an enemy's list. There will be abuses, but for sure, 38 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 1: the first thing that we know about the first month 39 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: of the Trump presidency is that the US Senate has 40 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: abandoned completely as an institution the role that it was 41 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:57,040 Speaker 1: in envisioned for abounding fathers. It has become Trump's politbureau. 42 00:02:57,560 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: It has forfeited it's intos and by confirming this team 43 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: of Trump imbeciles, it has endangered the nation. Trump has 44 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: sown chaos in the world. He has stabbed Ukraine in 45 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: the back by blaming the victim of aggression for being 46 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:20,880 Speaker 1: the aggressor. It is sick. It is like blaming Poland 47 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: for Nazi Germany invading, and that it is being done 48 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: by a president of the United States makes it sicker. Still. 49 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:32,160 Speaker 1: There is no excuse and there are no words. It 50 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,600 Speaker 1: is a moral, as are Donald Trump's threats against Canada 51 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 1: an exit. Donald Trump, the president of the United States, 52 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:43,840 Speaker 1: talks about our friendly neighbor, a country that we share 53 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: the longest peaceful, undefended border in world history with, like 54 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 1: Kutin does Ukraine, as if it has no right to exist. 55 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump, by the end of the first month, sat 56 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,760 Speaker 1: down in Riad with Russians to negotiate the future of 57 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:03,440 Speaker 1: US Ukraine. He sent his errand boy, Marco Rubio, and 58 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: there he sat across from the Russian bear getting eaten alive. 59 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: The United States was carving up Ukraine with Russia, without 60 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: Ukraine in the room, without any European power in the room. 61 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,280 Speaker 2: Today I heard, oh, well we weren't invited. Well, you've 62 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 2: been there for three years. You should have ended it. 63 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 2: Three years. You should have never started it. You could 64 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 2: have made a deal. I could have made a deal 65 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: for Ukraine that would have given him almost all of 66 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 2: the land, everything, almost all of the land, and no 67 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:34,599 Speaker 2: people would have been killed, and no city would have 68 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 2: been demolished, and not one dome would have been knocked down. 69 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 1: That happened in the first month. Trump lied, he incited, 70 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,920 Speaker 1: he divided. When there was a plane crash, without any 71 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 1: facts or evidence, he said, it was DEI. The callousness, 72 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 1: the capriciousness, all of it is just getting started. He 73 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 1: took down the portrait of Mark Milly from the Pentagon 74 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 1: that hung on the wall of former Chairman of the 75 00:04:58,120 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: Joint Chiefs of Staff in enact of supreme pettiness before 76 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 1: canceling his security. His security is necessary because General Millie 77 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,799 Speaker 1: is under assassination threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran. 78 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 1: This is the deadly business. And Donald Trump knows exactly 79 00:05:13,440 --> 00:05:16,159 Speaker 1: what he's doing. We have seen this first month and 80 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,640 Speaker 1: utter passivity from the Democratic leadership in the Congress. Chuck 81 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: Schumer's strategy is to lay on the tracks and to 82 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:27,960 Speaker 1: shout and chant we're winning. There is no opposition that 83 00:05:28,080 --> 00:05:32,039 Speaker 1: has come together in Washington from the political leadership of 84 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. But the lawsuits they're succeeding. There are 85 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: protests that are breaking out. At the end of the 86 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: first month, the table is set. Donald Trump has asserted 87 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: fundamentally on American propositions. During the last seventy two hours, 88 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,440 Speaker 1: Donald Trump said that he would lower prices on day one, 89 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: and on day thirty, prices are higher than they were 90 00:05:55,279 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: on day one. Have you seen the cost of eggs? 91 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: It's on Trump's watch. Yet there is no response, there 92 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:06,840 Speaker 1: is no fighting back, just silence for now from the Democrats. 93 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,479 Speaker 1: During the weeks and the months ahead, there will be 94 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,919 Speaker 1: a lot of testing and a lot of chaos. And 95 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: we can look back to this first month and understand 96 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump, he has assembled to his team, he 97 00:06:18,120 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: has asserted power. He has made himself again the dominant 98 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,839 Speaker 1: player on the world stage. Heading into February, poll numbers 99 00:06:26,839 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 1: are coming down. Heading into February, the economy is blinking 100 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:35,239 Speaker 1: red and prices are going up. Donald Trump looks strong 101 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: because Donald Trump is playing a character in a scripted 102 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:43,559 Speaker 1: series that rolls out every day by his written hand, 103 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: by his design. He's calling the shots and the media 104 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 1: plays along. And so at the end of the first month, 105 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: the last thing might be the most important one, and 106 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: it's assault on the spirit of the First Amendment, and 107 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: on the media, and on the idea that this is 108 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: somehow suddenly intolerable and an upfront and to be retaliated against. 109 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:10,560 Speaker 1: All of these things are unacceptable in the United States. 110 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: But more than anything else is the idea that Donald 111 00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: Trump has made billionaires and CEOs afraid enough of him 112 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 1: that in a country with the First Amendment, newsrooms all 113 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: over it are chilled. There is chaos around the world. 114 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: There is chaos in Washington, and the American media is chilled. 115 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 1: The Democratic Party is flat on its back. But the 116 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: courts of law are working. And that's the state of 117 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:42,720 Speaker 1: things one month in. There's a long way to go. 118 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,920 Speaker 1: Remember President Obama said something lately that was deeply true. 119 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 1: There are no permanent or defeats in American life. This 120 00:07:51,960 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: is the warning. I'm Steve Schmidt. This is the warning 121 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,840 Speaker 1: and I invite you to join. Subscribe on our sub stack, 122 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,520 Speaker 1: on our YouTube check follow us. Welcome to the community.